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Danny Katz
Danny Katz
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Father, husband, drummer, data enthusiast, animal lover, vegan, political junkie, all things Marvel, music, and Minnesota Vikings/T-Wolves; people over profits! (he/him)
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@sceneonradio.bsky.social @celesteheadlee.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social I just finished a re-listen of seasons 2-4, & I feel like we need a mini-season revisiting it all through the lens of our current moment. I learn something new on every re-listen, but this was something else entirely. 1/2
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This guy gets it: Trump's autocratic attempt is going well. They don't care what most of the US thinks, and vanishingly few of his voters regret their vote because trans people and immigrants are being hurt more than they are being hurt.
The hopium is wild to see. No, Trump isn't "fucked." He is in a moment many fascists were, which is to say losing popularity once in power. But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.
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@phish.com @trey.com @mike-gordon.com @pagemcconnell.com a few Hollywood Bowl ideas: Life on Mars Don’t You Want To Go Crimes of the Mind Of course, Antelope (or Roll Like a Cantaloupe) is welcome at every show!
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If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, the courts are unlikely to stop him. We wish there was some institution — businesses, media, law firms, universities, anything — that would save us. As with so much in this era, it will fall to the people to protect the republic.
This is really cool. Go science!
I thought it was a joke but it's not. There's an actual study. Researchers at Penn & Finland engineered gum with antiviral bean proteins that ⬇️ viral load in the mouth the main site of replication for many viruses, including SarsCov2, HSV-1 &2, & influenza. www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...
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I mean I know there's a lot going on, but you'd think this might be bigger news. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is sad, and I’m sure there are tons of similar stories that aren’t getting any attention. It’s easy to jump to “I never thought the leopards would eat my face”, but I think it’s more productive to persuade folks like this join the opposition to this admin.
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Just to spell this out: you, too, are not breaking the law. Versions of this could happen to any of us.
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Seems a bit concerning…😳🤯
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
They don’t care about us at all; they just want the rich to get richer.
CBO Report: To achieve budget goals, GOP must cut Medicare or Medicaid What are those goals? -$4.5T in tax cuts for 800 billionaires & a few hundred billion dollar corps, many of whom only currently pay less than 5% tax That's it. That's the GOP goal. Steal from the poor to fund their rich donors.
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"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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was going to thread this article I wrote today but @bettycjung.bsky.social has done it for me! so here you go :-)
Nothing authoritarian happening here at all…😳 www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...
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Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
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Stephen Miller's legal group alleged in 2023 that NASCAR participated in the “ongoing, deliberate, and illegal discrimination against white, male Americans.” Now, similar complaints will be a priority at the gov't agency for combatting employment discrimination. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part of a political strategy to sow division and expand authoritarian control.
A cornerstone of oppression is suppression. If people don’t understand the system they exist in, they’re far less likely to rage against it. Exploitation is easier when the exploited don’t fight back.
It is clear as someone who studies Black critiques of white supremacy—framed by Republicans as DEI—that this Trump admin initiative could very easily result in criminal penalties for those researching & teaching abt regimes of oppression & movements for liberation. A criminalization of critique.
The DOJ wants to criminally prosecute private companies over DEI policies. Is that gov’t-sanctioned segregation?
They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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"It’s a strange and terrible thing to recognize that my fiercest desire has the potential to harm him in the same way."
So, we’re already pushing race science? 😳 🤯 I mean, it hasn’t even been 2 weeks…
ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant? RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ... ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?